Practice Nurse (Fixed Term)
The Ridings Medical Group
Brough, HU15 1AY · HESSLE, HU13 9LZ · YORK, YO43 4BJ · BROUGH, HU15 2JG · SELBY, YO8 6LY
Salary
£21.19 to £25.22
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
20 September 2026
15 days left
Job description
The Ridings Medical Group is seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Practice Nurse (Fixed term for one year - maternity cover) to join our well e...
The successful candidate will be responsible for a wide range of treatment duties, such as:
- Wound care and dressings
- Suture removal
- Blood pressure monitoring
- ECGs
- Peak flow readings
- Injections
- Childhood immunisations
- Travel vaccinations
- Coil fitting and contraceptive implant procedures
A key part of the role is the day to day management of chronic disease clinics, including asthma, diabetes, vascular disease and COPD.
For full details of responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the complete job description attached to the advert.
To assist General Practitioners in the care of their patients. This includes treatment, preventative care, screening and patient education. This may be on an NHS basis or private basis.
The role is 28-32 hours per
week, worked across all The Ridings Medical Group sites. The exact working
pattern will be agreed with the successful candidate, offering a degree of
flexibility where possible. This role would suit a qualified Practice Nurse
with experience in areas such as childhood immunisations, travel vaccinations,
cervical cytology and chronic disease management.
The successful candidate will be a strong team player, able to work collaboratively and confidently within a multidisciplinary team across multiple sites. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, flexibility and a patient-focused approach are essential for this role. The ideal candidate will demonstrate professional standards, supporting health promotion and disease prevention initiatives and contributing to the ongoing development of practice services to ensure excellent patient outcomes.
We are a large, forward-thinking Practice with over 48,000 patients across five main practice sites - Brough, South Cave, Hessle, Holme Upon Spalding Moor and Bubwith. Each of these sites has its own personal characteristics and a varied patient mix as we cover commuting areas for Hull, Leeds, and York, due to easy access to A63/M62, and rural East Yorkshire.
More information about us can be found on our website: www.theridingsmedicalgroup.nhs.uk
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Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
- Strong organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Solid understanding of confidentiality.
- Ability to manage change in an inclusive manner.
- Ability to work with other teams, providing support.
AI and Right to work
Essential
- Please advise if AI contributed to any part of your application, indicating the extent of its use.
- Confirm you meet the visa requirements detailed in the attached 'Additional information for applicants' document.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level nurse.
- Experience of working as a Practice Nurse within General Practice.
- Good standard of general education.
Experience
Essential
- Involvement in implementing and using protocols, PGDs, PSDs and clinical guidelines.
- Experience in long term conditions, vaccinating (travel & child immunisations), cervical screening and phlebotomy.
- Experience of managing effective change.
- Minimum 2 years post-registration experience.
Desirable
- A detailed and advanced working knowledge of SystmOne, particularly in respect of searches, coding, data quality etc
Special knowledge and competencies
Essential
- Demonstrate the application of evidenced based practice.
- Able to demonstrate a depth and breadth of current issues and policies within the NHS and have the ability to translate into General Practice.
- Ability to work as part of a large team and in conjunction with other health care professionals, but also able to work independently.
- High level of clinical skills and competency relevant to the role.
- Understanding and experience of interagency working and adult/child protection.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Experience of Clinical Governance and risk assessment.
- Accountability of own role.
Behaviours
Essential
- Planning, organising and the ability to multitask.
- Performing under pressure.
- Assertive and prepared to challenge in a constructive and professional manner.
- Flexibility and ability to cover colleagues.
- Taking the initiative.
- Self-motivated.
- Team working.
- Diplomatic.
- Empathetic.
- Willingness to learn about how the Practice works overall in order to understand the impact of contractual changes.
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
4 September 2026
Last checked
5 September 2026
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